Re: Processing in memory by any other name, would provide as much bandwidth and scalability
Jo,
I think you're comments may hold true for HPC style applications, but in typical corporate datacetners, most servers utilize less than 5% of their available bandwidth of their storage network, and outside of backup events, the connections to the arrays themselves are rarely above 50%, and this was back in the days of 4Gbit FC ...
I also believe the amount of low latency east-west bandwidth that's coming around over the next few years will change a lot of things, and from a manageability point of view I suspect that storage-centric nodes and compute centric-nodes will still be popular for a variety of reasons.
Then again, maybe I'm stuck in the corporate data-center world where multiple 100Gbit RDMA capable links with microsecond latencies, seems like effectively limitless bandwidth.
John Martin
Principal Technologist - NetApp ANZ
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